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Traces the development and discusses the importance of specialization in American industry and agriculture, with the added attraction of a left-populist folkie score.
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Traces the development and discusses the importance of specialization in American industry and agriculture, against a background of modern folk ballads sung to guitar accompaniment.
Ken Smith describes this film: "NOBODY can be independent these days!" And that's a good thing. Much praise for fifties' hive mentality and robotic, assembly-line "specialists." The whole thing is linked together with a Woody Guthriesque folk song, I guess to make you believe that it's liberal and progressive instead of something thrown together by an advertising agency.
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Reviewer:
Spuzz
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September 9, 2003
Subject: Shut UP already.
Subject: Shut UP already.
A painfully slow movie to watch, ITETOBTL tells a tale of someone's greandfather who moved to a farm, harvested corn, and then bartered it for services, and that of course, is how free enterprise is born! We then go to today, and how those principles built this land of ours. Now, that maybe fine, but after about every 2 lines of narration, I kid you not, Oscar Brand, supposedly famous Folk singer, sings a song about it. So we have songs about Lumber, fish, poeple looming, and most importantly, farming. Grating to say the least.
